How Indonesia's fisheries governance can achieve SDG's 14? Linking problem and solution based on a root cause analysis approach

Abstract

As sustainable development goals (SDG's) 14 faces a challenge to achieve the target of sustainable fisheries management and governance. This paper's objective is to assess the obstacle of Indonesia's fisheries management and governance with regards to enabling factors in sustainable development related to business practitioners. Primary and secondary data were collected using previous literature, FGD and in-depth interviews. Indeed, we employed root cause analysis to examine the data with the possible impact on SDG's 14. The results highlighted that disconnected activity and communication among stakeholders cause unsustainable fisheries management. The practice of business practitioners had not optimized capture fisheries management, including its post-harvest management. Therefore, limited welfare was achieved by the stakeholders involving, including fishermen. The fishing communities had limited knowledge and business capacity. The study suggested a platform design by the national fisheries institutions to support the fisheries business development and other related stakeholders. This study concluded that a national platform could improve fisheries business practitioners' knowledge and capacity to engage in national planning to achieve SGD's 14.